The Pearce Register of Conscientious Objectors

Cyril Pearce has conducted an extended study of a wide variety of sources to elicit the numbers of First World War conscientious objectors associated with counties and local authorities, and created a comprehensive register of conscientious objectors which was previously available online as the Imperial War Museum’s Conscientious Objectors Register 1914-1918.

15 thoughts on “The Pearce Register of Conscientious Objectors

  1. […] We know almost nothing about this man.   Because we have no age, possible birth year or forename it is impossible to add to the following information, all of which comes from the Pearce Register: […]

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  2. […] to the Pearce Register, W.G. was working as a Maintenance Engineer in Charge of a factory in 1916 (or 1917), when he first […]

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  3. […] nothing is known about this man other than that what is recorded on the Pearce Register of conscientious objectors. According to the Pearce Register, Christie, a GPO telegraphist, […]

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  4. […] Collins is one of the men recorded on the Pearce Register of conscientious objectors about who we know very little. The  record shows that in August 1916 […]

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  5. […] little is known about this man. According to the Pearce Register, Arthur, a clerk,  applied to Tottenham Tribunal for exemption from Military Service at some […]

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  6. […] are not sure exactly who W.S. Dennett was.   We know from the Pearce Register that he lived in the West Green Ward of Tottenham and that in May 1916 he was sentenced to one […]

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  7. […] application for exemption, we have no address for him, we do not know his motivation.   The Pearce Register lists him as a 29 year old warehouseman who he appeared before Tottenham Tribunal and the Middlesex […]

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  8. […] appears from the Pearce Register that he was a Commercial Traveller, who was granted exemption from combatant service by Tottenham […]

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  9. […] age it has been impossible to trace him through birth, death and census records. We know from the Pearce Register that he was married and an elementary school teacher. We don’t know why he became a conscientious […]

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  10. […] Daisey and Lotte and one brother, Bertram.   I think he was born in 1883 not 1893 as the Pearce Register has […]

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  11. […] know for certain very little about this man.   He is recorded on the Pearce Register as a Motor Mechanic who appeared before the Tottenham Tribunal.  They gave him exemption from […]

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  12. […] to the Pearce Register, at some point he must have come before the Tottenham Tribunal when he was working for the Inland […]

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  13. […] man simply named Wallace of Tottenham, a member of the No Conscription Fellowship, is listed on the Pearce Register of conscientious objectors. He is said to have been arrested in Tottenham, as an absentee, on 31 […]

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  14. […] man called G Rose is listed as a conscientious objector on the Pearce Register who was arrested as an absentee, tried at Tottenham Police Court, and handed over to the military […]

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  15. […] The Pearce Register records that Harry Bland Johnson  was a conscientious objector, who served in the Friends’ Ambulance Unit between April 1916 and January 1919. He is listed in the the Friends’ Ambulance Unit records with an address at 24 Stanhope Gardens, Shepherds Hill, Highgate, in Hornsey in 1919. […]

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